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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

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All new! The revolt of the apes. The most awesome spectacle in the annals of science fiction!

In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, Caesar, the son of the late simians Cornelius and Zira, surfaces after almost twenty years of hiding out from the authorities, and prepares for a slave revolt against humanity.

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these movies are fucking insane. this one opens as retro orwellian scifi (in an alternate 90s where a flu killed all cats and dogs and apes have replaced all pets and menial labor) but by the end it's practically as vicious and bloody as a george romero movie filled with scorching rage as the apes going full Day of the Dead in their armed uprising against mankind for imprisoning and enslaving them.

I love how each Apes sequel tries something new. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes is not perfect, but the cruel future (1991, where apes are kept as enslaved pets in place of cats and dogs, made extinct in a plague) it presents is very effective. This is a violent film (see the unrated version). The scenes of action and carnage are rather disturbing at times, particularly the final explosive minutes. Roddy McDowall is given the spotlight in this entry, and he's great as Caesar — the ape who kicks off the revolution. A very good sequel and a serious warning of how shitty a world would be without cats and dogs.

Absolutely loved this movie, super dark and violent. I watched the unrated version on the blu-ray and it was surprisingly bloody. Some of Roddy McDowall's best work as a chimp. Monkey riot is something I won't soon forget.

The film that's considered the main inspiration for the 2011 preboot Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes is not only arguably the best sequel to the original film (although Escape is also a solid contender for the title), but also the darkest and most violent entry in the original series. Paul Dehn once again returns for screenplay duties after having worked on Beneath and Escape, and his work here is actually quite solid. Dehn delivers surprisingly big on strong character development and social commentary while still telling a classic sci-fi story. The characters are smartly written and each have to deal with a…

My first time watching the "Unrated Director's Cut". While it's surprisingly more violent, that's not the reason it's better. It's the changes in the ending, while they are ever so slight they speak volumes in tone. Without spoiling anything specific, there is one event that is totally flipped and there is less said in a certain character's speech. The result is a much more profound and powerful ending.

Roddy McDowall really steps up to the plate in this one as his character, Caesar, is the sole principal character this time around. It's his first chance in the series to really play out a real character arc and it works out beautifully.…

In 1968’s Planet of the Apes, there was an implication that the rise of intelligent apes happened after Mankind had destroyed itself with nuclear war, with the existence of such evolved creatures due to thousands of years as well as any lingering radioactive effects. When writer Paul Dehn took over the series, he introduced in the epilogue/reboot/prequel Escape From the Planet of the Apes the idea that the emergence of these apes happened concurrently with the last days of Man. That allowed Dehn to set up a story not just about Man’s successor, but his overthrowing by that successor—instead of simply blowing ourselves up, we were going to be taught a hard lesson, with the apes as our teachers.

Found it very funny. The editing was crazy and gave the film a break neck pace, from doing a minute of research it looks like they edited down from an R rated feature to PG so explains the mass censoring.